That's not really what they said though. They explicitly said not every person who is interested in blockchain is behaving like a fundamentalist, but that perhaps people who make the leap from "blockchain works for Bitcoin" to "blockchain is going to change our political system" may be thinking like a fundamentalist.

I would posit that the overwhelming majority of Bitcoin enthusiasts don't think that the blockchain is going to somehow disrupt the massive political machine we have. By nature the problems there are not really technical.